Who are the low educational achievers? An analysis in relation to gender, emotional stability and conscientiousness

Low educational qualification, i.e. reaching no or only a very basic degree, substantially decreases an individual’s prospects on todays labour market. Emotional stability and conscientiousness are known to be predictive of achievement. Nevertheless, the moderating role these two personality traits outcome low interaction with gender far less explored. In this paper, we use rich data from British Cohort Study 1970 analyse relationship between measured in adolescence achievement adulthood. Our results show that emotionally stable conscientious females have highest risk qualification. contrast, more males face above average suggest neglecting differences relation is likely misleading.